Homemade Microscope Reveals How Cancer-Causing Virus Clings to Our DNA like a Bur to a Sock (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Homemade Microscope Reveals How Cancer-Causing Virus Clings to Our DNA like a Bur to a Sock

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M. Mitchell Smith (from left), Margaret J. Grant and Dean H. Kedes have discovered how a cancer-causing virus clings to our DNA. Targeting that tether could let doctors cure diseases by flushing viruses out of the body. Many more images -- and a 3-D computer animation -- are available.

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Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications

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